I have problems with my hardware, and am probably going to accept some loss of data. But I am particularly anxious not to loose all my KMail information.
In the dim and distant past, I used to be able to copy across a .mail folder and bingo! I had my emails. Is there anything similar in KDE 3.5.10? My guesses were all wrong!
FWIW, and in case it affects anyone else, I tried to use my Lenny /home, which is on a separate HDD, with TDE 3.5.12 or 3.5.11 (I have wiped it, and now can't remember which it was). KMail refused to function. So I reinstalled Lenny and 3.5.10, and KMail could not use the directories because the indices had been altered. KMail's offered attempts to reset the indices (and maybe lose a bit) failed to work. Obviously I ought not to have tried to go backwards, but there was not much other choice at the time!!
So, alternatively, is there some way I could tidy up the "corrupted" copy?
Thanks
Lisi
On Sunday 30 October 2011 16:46:07 Lisi Reisz wrote:
So, alternatively, is there some way I could tidy up the "corrupted" copy?
if you still have the folder containing your emails (mine is ~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/dimap, might be somewhere else for you), it should be ok to delete the (corrupted) index files:
cd <your email folder> rm -rf *.index
kmail should be able to recreate the indices from there. note: this applies if your mails are in a maildir-format structure, mbox will need other procedure (not sure, which).
HTH werner
On 30 October 2011 16:03, Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2011 16:46:07 Lisi Reisz wrote:
So, alternatively, is there some way I could tidy up the "corrupted" copy?
if you still have the folder containing your emails (mine is ~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/dimap, might be somewhere else for you), it should be ok to delete the (corrupted) index files:
cd <your email folder> rm -rf *.index
kmail should be able to recreate the indices from there. note: this applies if your mails are in a maildir-format structure, mbox will need other procedure (not sure, which).
Thanks, Werner! That's really helpful of you. I am itching to try (the older data that I have has dimap, but nothing in it), but having, as it appears, fried the clone, I shall leave accessing the "corrupted" disk until I have a better (read safer) method available, which will be in a few days' time.
Lisi
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